Welcome to the beginning of TechYell. I am your host Mark Nielsen aka manielse on the Internets. It wasn’t planned to have a generic look at launch but I’ve spent way too much time trying to decided Logos, WordPress Design, etc that it was simply delaying the import stuff of a blog: the Content. You see, sometimes we are told that we need to do things in a specific order and that a launch should have an amazing splash but doing things in a serial order can lead to bottlenecks. Which leads me to my first topic:

What forces slow things down?

Upthrust - When you are trying to create something special, many of us have grand ideas and shoot for the moon or even farther. We see a big picture but the details are blurry as there are many choices that one could make. This is where many ideas are created because the project is pretty much just a thought, maybe a few wireframes and everything seems so easy like the idea weighs less than water. The problem with upthrust is that it can keep you moving in a direction that doesn’t move your project forward, it can create too many choices that causes information overload. You’re motivated to move things in the right direction but a force keeps you from grounding new ideas. I think many people have this issue, they have great concepts but never can put them to reality due to the desire to make something absolutely perfect on day one.

Friction - Another obstacle that happens often is friction which keeps you from moving fluidly. Friction wastes energy. Uptrust can cause Friction but this obstacle can come in many other forms. Everything in your environment can potentially slow down your productivity, the trick is to figure out how you can smooth your environment out or do whatever it takes to push harder. Friction starts with how you wake up each morning, how you plan your day and how you you handle tasks needing to be done. Poor planning and procrastination, wasted time and energy are given off instead. This is not say that you shouldn’t give yourself some rest and personal time, burnout is a pretty intense symptom of friction.

The most common other form of friction in projects is when two or more people disagree. I’ve seen this situation all too often where nothing moves forward because of disagreement. There comes a time where you need to draw a line in the sand and make a decision. The most difficult things sometimes is knowing that a consensus is not going to happen but a decision needs to be made. Don’t worry too much on this, most decisions are more insignificant than we make them out to be versus not moving at all.

Gravity - The fact is something will always be trying to holding you down. This could be a person, money, fear, ambition, other work, life and of course you can hold yourself back. The fatal law of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you. Whatever the cause is, you need to identify and determine ways to work against things pulling you or the project down. Man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders but he is not bolted to the earth. If you want a successful project, one must at all costs overcome the Earth’s gravity.

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So I’m jumping some of the bottlenecks for now, I’ll revisit them later and simply move forward. Despite the name, this blog is not just another outlet for me to rant and simply give my perspective of what is right, wrong and irrelevant. Surely I will give a fair share of my perspectives of the current and future state of technology but more importantly the goal is foster thought provoking improvements and great discussions. We all want to be Signal and not Noise, this isn’t my first blog but it is the first I’ve done in a while so bear with me. To be honest, I feel a bit rusty but the cobwebs needed to come off at some point, I decided to do that today even though I didn’t even have a clue what my fingers were going to type for a first post. But I knew I wanted to get this site started before the rumored Apple Tablet officially surfaces, so “Hello World!” for now.